Wisdom Quotes

• "It may be said, almost without qualification, that the wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive."
  By: Archbishop Richard Whately
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• "With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught."
  By: Edmund Waller
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• "He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad. [Fr., Qui n'est que juste est dur, qui n'est que sage est triste.] [More accurately: He who is but just is severe, he who is but wise is sad. Or, more idiomatically: He who is only just is severe, he who is only wise is sad.]"
  By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), Epitre au Roi de Prusse
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• "Where the eye of pity weep, And the sway of passion sleeps, Where the lamp of faith is burning, And the ray of hope returning, Where the "still small voice" within Whispers not of wrath or sin, Resting with the righteous dead-- Beaming o'er the drooping head-- Comforting the lowly mind, Wisdom dwelleth--seek and find."
  By: Unknown
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• "True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument."
  By: Martin Farquhar Tupper
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• "Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter. To what shall their rarity be likened? What price shall count their worth? Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty."
  By: Martin Farquhar Tupper
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• "Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed."
  By: John Tillotson
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• "He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act."
  By: Ludwig Tieck
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• "Vain man would trace the mystic maze With foolish wisdom, arguing, charge his God, His balance hold, and guide his angry rod, New-mould the spheres, and mend the skies' design, And sound th' immense with his short scanty line. Do thou, my soul, the destined period wait, When God shall solve the dark decrees of fate, His now unequal dispensation clear, And make all wise and beautiful appear."
  By: Thomas Tickell
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• "A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come. [Lat., Isthuc est sapere non quod ante pedes modo est Videre sed etiam illa, quae futura sunt Prospicere.]"
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi (III, 3, 32)
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• "Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass."
  By: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
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• "Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (st. 124)
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• "'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (pt. CVIII)
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• "A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy."
  By: Sir William Temple
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• "The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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